PYMNTS

MAY 11, 2020

Through this year’s Levi’s Haus Miami activation, the brand partnered with TikTok influencers Callen Schaub , Cosette Rinab , Gabby Morrison and Everett Williams to create customized denim using Future Finish 3-D denim customization technology. “As For example, fashion brands have found success on Instagram and its visual strength.

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OCTOBER 9, 2020

That’s the current state of play in Southeast Asia where social commerce is growing rapidly as brands try to find new ways to sell during the pandemic. Social commerce is growing rapidly, and every day social media companies are adding new capabilities to support this growth.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

A new report from Interactive Advertising Bureau ( IAB ) shows that the online advertising business continues to grow at double-digit rates. This landmark figure cements digital advertising — whether display, search or mobile video — as one of the most powerful mechanisms of all time for brands to build relationships with consumers.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Social commerce platform Verishop is adding new social features to its app, allowing all users to share content and interact with other shoppers and brands. According to the release, Verishop believes it has identified the most important social features for an eCommerce app.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Bloomberg reports that it offers a bevy of innovative options intended to entice customers into spending more time shopping. Social Retail. Tencent, which has the popular WeChat Pay platform as well as the social media platform Weibo, will offer one-stop shopping for Burberry items in one of the world’s most important luxury markets.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Consumers have shopped online, via mobile devices and at brick-and-mortar stores in various capacities for years, but the pandemic is dramatically expanding the connections between these channels. billion online in Q2 2020. times more consumer conversions for brands such as Estée Lauder, for example.

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JANUARY 28, 2021

Squarespace was reported to be seeking a $400 million credit line in 2019, PYMNTS reported, which generally means that the company is preparing to go public. Squarespace CEO Anthony Casalena said the company's goal was to be an “all in one” platform for “anyone to stand out,” including both those making businesses and personal brands.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2019

In what is reportedly its first acquisition of an Asian beauty brand, Estee Lauder Cos. Dr. Jart+ was founded in Seoul in 2005 and sells masks, moisturizers, serums and cleansers under names such as Ceramidin and Cicapair, Deal Street Asia reported. Have & Be also owns Do The Right Thing, a men’s grooming brand. Coty Inc. ,

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FEBRUARY 3, 2020

percent of online sales came from social channels. However, 8 percent of Cyber Monday visits did originate from social media, an increase of 17.5 It comes from WBR Insights , which credits customer engagement via social media. Brand advertisers, it says, need to justify social media ROI.

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JUNE 1, 2020

Looking beyond COVID-19, Wall Street is betting the at-home fitness boom will outlast the social distancing era. Bloomberg News reported NEOU , the New York-based live streaming and on-demand platform for trainers, has raised $5 million in capital from investors including Ares Management Corp., NEOU charges U.S. customers $14.99

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DECEMBER 15, 2020

Merchants must constantly reevaluate their customer-targeting efforts to suit the latest commerce developments, and many are pivoting from brick-and-mortar advertising to focus their outreach online or via social media channels. These trends are in turn ratcheting up the number of customers who are moving to new brands.

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JULY 10, 2020

Quick-service restaurants (QSRs) and others in the food service space are rapidly adjusting their operations during the pandemic, with many implementing new technologies online and in-store to ensure customers can seamlessly and safely place orders. Mobile Order-Ahead Developments Around The World.

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JUNE 8, 2017

In just a short decade, social media has grown from a couple of platforms connecting music fans and college students to the de facto channel of communication for millions of people every day. How pervasive has social media become? Social Media is for Building Relationships, Not Spamming Ideas.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Two famous North American-based quick-service restaurant (QSR) brands are preparing to duke it out in China for chicken-meal supremacy, the most recent sign of how Western brands are trying to increase their footholds in that massive country. The news comes as more Western brands – including those based in the U.S. –

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JUNE 24, 2019

Luxury brands are increasingly using chat app WeChat in China to reach customers and sell big-ticket items, according to a report by TechCrunch. Brands like Bulgari, Cartier and Louis Vuitton are on the platform and connecting with millions of customers. Part of the appeal is that customers can create relationships with brands.

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JUNE 16, 2019

After rolling out only about two years ago, shopping social network Amazon Spark has reportedly recently left Amazon’s apps and the internet. The feature reportedly aimed to connect the gap between socializing and online shopping, Mashable reported.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 28, 2020

As recently as a few years ago, experts were predicting the era of social media platforms was over, and that new entrants were far less likely to make a dent on the market than be bought out by the established names in the game. In that effort, in fact, it is hardly alone as social media platforms go. percent from 4.5

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Luxury brand Burberry has teamed up with Tencent in China to offer a “social retail” store to take advantage of China’s online shopping trend and capture more of the luxury market in the country, according to a report by Reuters. . The plan is to create a space that mixes physical with digital.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Social media is taking a lot of fire these days, whether the issue is “fake news” or data privacy or just the time-wasting tendencies of many users. But social media is also driving retail innovation, and those trends are going to help shape commerce in the all-important fourth quarter and beyond into the 2020s.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

The event strives to unite the worlds of communications and marketing to stimulate conversations about digital marketing and influencer campaigns, PR Daily reported on Monday (Sept. As social media influencers are reaching mainstream status, they can ask for upwards of $22,000 per post. Sylo is sponsoring the event.

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JANUARY 14, 2020

After a report indicated Pinterest came out ahead of Snap Inc. ’s s Snapchat to take the spot as the third-largest social media platform in the United States, shares of the social media firm jumped by as high as 13 percent on Tuesday, Bloomberg reported. Pinterest had an estimated 82.4 million U.S.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 15, 2017

This month’s PYMNTS.com Omnicommerce Tracker™ , powered by Vantiv, looks at the latest advancements in smart technology that are powering sales, both online and in-store. Chatbots, robotics and other smart technology aren’t just powering online purchases — they’re in stores too. Making Social a Complete Fashion Experience .

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2016

And what’s out these days is luxury brands’ sales growth. The pair produced a 53-page report on shopping habits recently, stating that the wealthiest shoppers — across the globe — are more so keeping an eye on their wallets by being thrifty. But the brands are still trying to gain those spenders’ loyalty, namely through technology.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Social media site Pinterest has announced a new feature that will allow users to make purchases from a selected number of online shops as it continues to expand and grow, according to a report from CNBC. The feature, called the Pinterest Shop , has hundreds of what the company is calling “Product Pins.”

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PYMNTS

JULY 3, 2018

A recent California Supreme Court decision that essentially allows a negative Yelp post to stand about a lawyer could help determine how online reviews are treated in the future. An appeals court rejected Yelp’s argument, but the Supreme Court found in favor of the online review platform. Liability Protection. A colleague disagreed.

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PYMNTS

JULY 7, 2020

The offering brings together the functions of an online shopping website that Verishop rolled out in 2019 with a digital app that works similar to TikTok and Pinterest, Bloomberg reported. Imran Khan, who leads the startup and served as an executive for Snap Inc. “People said, ‘What are you doing? “But

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Online Resale. Online resale has become all the rage — even for retailers like Neiman Marcus — from a little bit of everything on OfferUp to fashion-focused Poshmark and high-end The RealReal and 1stdibs. Sales of counterfeit goods through online marketplaces are expected to hit $1.8 billion per year to fake online sales.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

With so many companies giving their employees Election Day off, it could be an opportunity for a one-day sales event both online and in-store. Social media has always been the go-to media for retailers due to its ability to target locally, and retarget as well. Not this year. Now, the where.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Standard Chartered cardholders will now be able to convert purchases to monthly installments for up to a year without having to call a bank or fill out any forms, the report stated. store," he said in the report. Payfort managing director Omar Soudodi said the offering would help to bolster financial choice. "We

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 12, 2019

To open 14 locations through next year, brand incubator and shopping website Verishop made a deal with U.S. The companies said it would include a combination of permanent locations and pop-up shops, CNBC reported. It has website tabs for picks from fashion and social media influencers as well as sustainably sourced products.

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MARCH 20, 2020

India is making a move to tighten controls on big tech companies like Amazon and require them to turn over data and other requested information in a timely manner, Reuters reported on Friday (March 20), citing sources. It also coincides with increased eCommerce and other online traffic due to the coronavirus.

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OCTOBER 5, 2018

Neither Facebook nor Instagram would confirm the report but TechCrunch said it based its report on a tip from a source who’s previously been on the money about other such changes. Users could find data about their location in the activity log of their Facebook profiles, the report said.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Kering is gearing up to offer its own luxury eCommerce sites within the next two years, ending existing joint-venture efforts and bringing such operations in house, reported Reuters. By 2020, Kering will bring full control of its luxury brands online through its own internal activities, which include building tech teams, said Reuters.

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PYMNTS

JULY 2, 2018

Direct-to-consumer advertising on Facebook has reportedly hit a rough patch, with spending by brands decreasing there. The trend comes at a time when brands are facing other changes on the social media site. That’s not the only recent news that involves brand and Facebook. Unwanted Transparency.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 18, 2017

As we reported just a few weeks ago, chat commerce is defined as “utilizing chat, messaging or other natural language interfaces (i.e. voice) to interact with people, brands or services and bots that heretofore have had no real place in the bidirectional, asynchronous messaging context.”.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2017

While it’s nice to be able to shop from the comfort of the couch, purchasing online can be rather confusing for some consumers. To ease the online shopping experience, retailers are increasingly turning to social media platforms to offer consistent support to their customers. And Toys R Us isn’t alone. About The Tracker.

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MAY 29, 2018

The latest edition of the Omni Developer Report highlights the solution providers and retailers from around the space that are looking to introduce mobile commerce solutions to quickly capture consumer dollars, and loyalty. To read the full story, download the report above. About the Report.

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